Fen Durand Letter

May 2, 1970
Norfolk, Virginia

Dear Bill:

I wish it were possible for ms to come to Kansas later this month when your associates and former athletes pause to pay honor to you. Certainly, I was one of those inspired and greatly influenced by your leadership during the 1936-39 years.

It's been a long while, Bill, since I have seen you. Occasionally, I get out that way to see my mother who still lives in Junction City. On such occasions, I normally visit with Dana in Kansas City and he brings me up to date on most of my old friends such as yourself, Phog Allen, Henry Shenk and others. I have missed seeing all of you through the years but the work I followed just didn't permit too many visits.

^{As you probably recall, I remained in the marine Corps at the end of World War II as a regular officer. After various overseas and U.S. assignments, I retired _in 1963 after 23 years service. We settled in Norfolk, Virginia, where we already had a number of friends and where I have worked since 1963 in the concrete, sand, and gravel business. Incidentally, each of our two sons ran the cross-country, mile and two mile in high school. They each ran the mile in less than 4:40 minutes which was excellent high school time in my day, but of course is not too good currently. One has now finished college, is married and has a baby girl. The other is a sophomore at our local university - Old Dominion University here in Norfolk}

^{Many thanks for your help and guidance thirty years ago. What little success I may have had in life to date, I owe to men like yourself who provided a good foundation for the adversities we all must face.}

^{With deep admiration,}

^{Fen Durand
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